Search Thousands of Civilian Complaints Against New York City Police Officers

This database was last updated in July 2020 and is no longer being updated. Data on this page may be out of date. For more recent information, visit the city's database of civilian complaints against the NYPD.

Abuse of Authority: Other Abuse

This page contains all allegations assigned to this category by the CCRB. Multiple similar allegations can appear for the same officer because a complaint received from a civilian can include multiple allegations.

Officers With Complaints
57
Complaints
61
Allegations
70

What the CCRB’s Conclusions Mean

Substantiated: The alleged conduct occurred and it violated the rules. (Here is a breakdown of the types of discipline the CCRB can recommend. The NYPD can choose to ignore those recommendations. It has discretion over what, if any, discipline is imposed.)

Exonerated: The alleged conduct occurred but did not violate the NYPD’s rules, which often give officers significant discretion over use of force.

Unsubstantiated: The CCRB has fully investigated but could not affirmatively conclude both that the conduct occurred and that it broke the rules.

Officer Rank at Time of Complaint Officer Details Complainant Details CCRB Conclusion Year Received
Louis Dellipizzi Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1999
Chanae Martin Police Officer Black female Not available Exonerated 1999
Alfred Moberg Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1999
Jason Schwartz Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1999
Ronald Luparello Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1999
Luis Cabrera Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Instructions) 1999
Peter Morales Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 1999
Patrick Hennessy Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1998
Anthony Carter Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1998
Philip Rivera Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1998
Norberto Tirado Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 1998
Stephen Derrico Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1998
Steve Tirado Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1998
Ronald Luparello Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1998
Paul Mcmahon Sergeant White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1998
Patrick Hennessy Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1998
Patrick Hennessy Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1998
Patrick Hennessy Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1998
Christopher McCormack Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1998
Joseph Gulotta Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1998
John Oconnor Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1998
Anthony Murray Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1998
Erik Scantlebury Detective Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 1998
Christine Nicastro Police Officer White female Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1998
Steven Glassman Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1998
Francisco Rosado Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1998
Louis Dellipizzi Detective White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1998
Joseph Grogan Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1998
Leighton Myrie Sergeant Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 1998
Dawud Danielbey Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 1998
Eric Shanley Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1998
Christopher McCormack Detective White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1997
Richard Warner Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1997
John Thornton Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1997
Richard Bergin Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1997
Dustin Genco Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1997
Matthew Lamendola Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Instructions) 1997
Gregory Butler Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1997
Michael Baldassano Lieutenant White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1997
Edward Caban Sergeant Hispanic male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1997
Kenneth Lehr Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1997
Brian Mullen Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1997
Josh Ulan Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1997
Ischaler Grant Police Officer Black male Not available Unsubstantiated 1997
Kris Kalmanowicz Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
Salvatore Molino Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1996
Elliot Colon Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 1996
Matthew Vahey Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
Mark Dipaolo Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1996
Eric Single Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1996
John Dorst Sergeant White male Not available Exonerated 1996
Michael Lee Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
Thomas Cerbone Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (No Recommendations) 1996
Lydell Boyd Police Officer Black male Not available Substantiated (Command Discipline) 1996
Patricia Macdonald Police Officer White female Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
Ronald Luparello Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
James Fogarty Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1996
William Otoole Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1995
Paul Ciorra Sergeant White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1995
Michael Barreto Police Officer Hispanic male Not available Exonerated 1995
William Otoole Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1995
William Otoole Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1995
Victor Appel Police Officer White male Not available Exonerated 1995
William Otoole Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1995
Richard Thompson Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1994
Joseph Delre Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1994
Joseph Delre Police Officer White male Not available Substantiated (Charges) 1993
Richard Bergin Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1989
Paul Digiacomo Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1989
Thomas Cerbone Police Officer White male Not available Unsubstantiated 1986
About This Data
For decades, disciplinary records of police officers in New York have been shielded from public view. After the state recently repealed the law that had kept the records secret, ProPublica requested and received a database from New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board, which investigates allegations of misconduct against NYPD officers. The database lists the name of each officer, the race of the complainant and the officer, a category describing the alleged misconduct, and whether the CCRB concluded the officers’ conduct violated NYPD rules. Police unions have opposed New York City’s plan to make public data about disciplinary investigations.

This database names about 4,000 of the NYPD’s 36,000 active-duty officers. Every officer in the database has had at least one substantiated allegation. We excluded any allegations that CCRB investigators concluded did not occur and were deemed unfounded. We also removed a small number of officers (62) against whom the CCRB had substantiated allegations, but whose substantiated allegations had not gone fully through the NYPD’s administrative prosecution process. The CCRB was not able to reach conclusions in many cases, in part because the investigators must rely on the NYPD to hand over crucial evidence, such as footage from body-worn cameras. Often, the department is not forthcoming despite a legal duty to cooperate in CCRB investigations. The CCRB gets thousands of complaints per year but substantiates a tiny fraction of them. Allegations of criminal conduct by officers are typically investigated not by the CCRB but by state or federal prosecutors in conjunction with the NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau or the FBI. The NYPD’s own findings in cases in this database are not included here.

Read more about what we’ve included in the database and why, and see our answers to questions we have received about this data. If you have information about any of these officers or cases, please fill out our form.

All of the records in this data are from closed cases. But if you see an error, contact the CCRB. If the agency updates its records and lets us know, we'll do so as well.

The data used in this database is downloadable from ProPublica’s Data Store.

Source
This data was obtained through a records request made to the CCRB. It includes fully investigated allegations only for officers who were members of the department as of late June 2020 and against whom the CCRB has substantiated at least one allegation.
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